This paper is the first systematic attempt to map the evolution of legal regulations concerning campaign finance in post-communist Romania and to link them with corruption practices parties have been engaged in, over the last decade. Our document analysis reveals a general increase in the...

What drives an incumbent legislator's desire for re-election? Drawing on two MP surveys from 2003 and 2011, the paper seeks to answer this question. The bi-variate and multivariate statistical models focus on the explanatory power of a few individual variables: parliamentary experience and...

Previous research on Romanian politics revealed an empirical paradox regarding party system stability. On the one hand, the number of political parties stabilized in the most recent decade and betweenc1992 and 2012 there were no new entries on the parliamentary arena. On the other hand, the...

Do MPs’ change their voting behavior following an electoral reform? Under such circumstances, are there different explanations for MPs’ loyalty towards their PPGs? This paper answers these questions by investigating the individual variation in voting loyalty across two legislative terms...